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This new edition of Headlong Hall provides an authoritative text of Peacock's ground-breaking first novel. Alongside a substantial historical and critical introduction, this volume contains full textual and explanatory notes that trace the genesis of Peacock's satirical fiction and identify its many ancient and modern sources.

This is the first scholarly edition of Thomas Love Peacock's most ambitious and comprehensive satire, a novel brilliantly engaged with myriad early nineteenth-century controversies. Alongside an authoritative text, this edition features an introduction and explanatory notes that expertly situate Melincourt in its historical and literary contexts.